Thanks! I think the patch can be slightly improved: it currently uses '/path/to/geodjango_site/static/' path as a path for STATIC_ROOT but it is easy to confuse with project's global static added to STATICFILES_DIRS (because the folder name 'static' is a kind of convention). Staticfiles docs uses '/home/www/static.example.com' and '/home/jacob/projects/mysite.com/sitestatic' name for this. I think '/path/to/geodjango_site/static_root/' or '/path/to/geodjango_site/collected_static/' may be less ambiguous.